Suzanne Ciani
Suzanne Ciani (born June 4, 1946) is an Italian American pianist and music composer, who found early success with innovative electronic music.
Education
Italian-born, she received classical music training at Wellesley College and obtained her M.A. in music composition in 1970 at University of California, Berkeley, where she met and was influenced by the synthesizer designer, Don Buchla. She studied computer generated music with John Chowning and Max Mathews at Stanford University's Artificial Intelligence Labs in the early 1970s.
Career in music
In 1974 she formed her own company, Ciani/Musica, and, using a Buchla Analog Modular Synthesizer, composed scores for television commercials for corporations such as Coca-Cola, Merrill Lynch, AT&T and General Electric. Besides music, her specialty was reproducing sound effects on the synthesizer, that recording engineers had found difficult to record properly; the sound of a bottle of Coca-Cola being opened and poured was one of Ciani's most widely recognized works, and was used in a series of radio and television commercials in the late 1970s. She is also responsible for "logo" sounds pertaining to Energizer and ABC. Such was the demand for her services, that at one point she was doing up to 50 sessions a week. Her sound effects also appeared in video games (the pinball game Xenon featured her voice). Such audio logos as the Coca-Cola pop and pour along with video game sound effects and more appear on the 2012 album Lixiviation (Finders Keepers) along with the only currently available excerpts from her 1975 Buchla Concert.
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ALBUMS
- Logo Presentation Reel 1985 (Instrumentals) / Octabred released: 2014
- Lixiviation released: 2012
- Silver Ship released: 2005
- Pure Romance released: 2003
- Meditations For Dreams Relaxation and Sleep released: 2002
- Dream Suite released: 1994
- History of My Heart released: 1989
- Seven Waves released: 1988
- Hotel Luna released: 1986
- The Velocity of Love released: 1985
- The Very Best of Suzanne Ciani released:
- Neverland released:
- Pianissimo released:
- Suzanne Ciani and the Wave Live! released:
Lixiviation
Released 2012- Lixiviation
- Atari Video Games Logo
- "Clean Room" ITT TV Spot
- Almay "Eclipse" TV Spot
- Paris 1971
- Sound of a Dream Kissing
- Atari Corporate Tag
- Princess With Orange Feet
- "Pop & Pour" Coca-Cola Logo
- "Discover Magazine" TV Spot
- Buchla Concert 1975 (live)
- "Inside Story" PBS TV Spot
- "Liberator" Atari TV Spot
- Eighth Wave
- Second Breath
- Sound of Wetness
Pure Romance
Released 2003- Andalusian Dream (from Pianissimo II)
- Yang Ming Shen (from Turning)
- The Enchantress (from Turning)
- Sailing to Byzantium (from Suzanne Ciani and the Wave: live!)
- Turning (from Turning)
- The Velocity of Love (from Suzanne Ciani and the Wave: live!)
- Meeting Mozart (from Dream Suite)
- Inverness (from Suzanne Ciani and the Wave: live!)
- Full Moon Sonata (from Dream Suite)
- Time Stops (from Pianissimo II)
- Til Times & Times Are Done (from Dream Suite)
- Waltz for Julia (from Turning)
- Timeless (from Pianissimo II)
- Midnight Rendezvous (from Turning)
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Turning
by: Suzanne CianiTell me you love me Tell me that you´re mine again Tell me you won´t turn away Turn like the seasons Turn back to me once again Circling all the way
Once you were my blue eyed prince Waking love from an endless sleep You made all of my wishes come true Turning all of my dreams into you
Turning and swirling and whirling ´round you again Twirling and curling ´round you Turning and burning and yearning for you again All my life with you
But lately I´m losing sleep Someone else is in your eyes Won´t you turn back to me my love Won´t you stop telling me lies
Turning and swirling and whirling ´round me again Twirling and curling ´round me Turning and burning and yearning for me again All my life with you
It is a chance, a romance It´s a dance we do
Turning in circles we go Turn like the seasons Turn back to me once again Never let me go
Tell me you love me Tell me that you´re mine again Tell me you won´t turn away Turn like the seasons Turn back to me once again Circling all the way
Turning and swirling and whirling ´round you again Twirling and curling ´round you Turning and burning and yearning for you again All my life with you
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